As a visual kei artist, Miyavi targets visual overload, be it through his osentatious costumes, experimental hairstyle or dizzying music videos. But this characteristic is only an accessory to his incredible, supersonic guitar play. The whole is blended as a uniquely Japanese sensory overload, inspired by early 1990s visual kei pioneers such as X-Japan (the term visual kei actually from X-Japan’s slogan of “psychedelic violence crime of visual shock”; see also their songs Desperate Angel and Weekend) and Kabuki Rocks (Kabuki being a style of traditional Japanese theater that often makes heavy use of heavy make-up and flamboyant costumes; you can get more of them by copying their Japanese name カブキロックス in youtube). You may judge by yourself how this comes out nowadays with young Japanese artists like Miyavi: